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Pizza, Pages, And More!

Happy Monday, everyone! I wanted to share some exciting news with you all — I’m hitting the road! Albeit a short road, but hey, the road all the same.

This Saturday (Nov 17th) I’ll be joining 4 other amazing local authors from 6-8pm at The Next Page Bookstore & More in the lovely town of Decatur, Indiana for a night of book readings, sales, and…PIZZA?!

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Yep, you read that right. Books and pizza. You can feed your hunger for shopping and, well, food all in one place! Famous Monster Pizza is co...

No Tricks, Only Treats

Happy Halloween, everyone! Fall in Indiana means changing leaves, chilly weather, and shorter days…which generally leads to spending more time indoors and READING (and writing, if you’re so inclined). I’m doing both, as well as working with some of my author friends to line up a few appearances in the NE corner of the state, so stay tuned!

For now, I wanted to share that my LOVE AT THE BEACH SHOP publisher Tule Publishing is offering a pretty sweet deal right now. Order ebooks through them to...

Road Tripping with TG Wolff

One of the best parts of author life is meeting and supporting other authors. It’s always awesome to find people from your tribe who don’t glaze over as you share your latest plot twist idea or editing stumbling blocks. So naturally, when TG Wolff called and said she was doing a reading down in Indianapolis this month to promote her thriller EXACTING JUSTICE, I said count me in.

Not only does TG’s writing totally rock, she’s also an awesome road trip buddy.

So, why fantasy?

I’ve been up to my eyeballs in rewrites the past two months, kicking book 1 of a new fantasy romance series up a few notches before my agent starts shopping it around for the perfect publishing company home. She wants more weird, more crazy, and I freaking love that—I’ve got plenty to pull from, trust me. But as I’ve been rewriting and letting my imagination run wilder, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit my inner critic has surfaced a few times.

“This is too far out there…you’re gonna start scari...

Turn it Off

I don’t know about you, but I think about things. A lot.

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Things I have no control of, and things I do. Things that won’t matter 5 days—or 5 years—from now, and things that will. Things that I should be doing, things that I shouldn’t. Things I wish were happening, things I wish weren’t.

If you’ve followed my blog the past few years, you’ll notice this is a reoccurring theme. Apparently I haven’t quite gotten this under control yet. And man, it’s exhausting.

Sometimes, all that thinking is a g...

What Shapes Them?

Shapes.

Nope, not talking about physical attributes (tall, petite, rail thin, built like an ox) today, but rather what shapes a person. Or, more specifically, fictional characters. But since they’re just the book/comic/movie version of us, it really applies across the board.

Have you ever read a book where you just couldn’t connect to a character? Maybe they were too negative, too positive, too much of a push over, too much of a bully. That isn’t necessary an indication that they were written...

The Good, the Bad, and the Oops Don’t Label It

I’ve been reading a book in between bites of lunch the past week on how to find joy at work. Now, let me pause right here and say I’m not unhappy with my day job–this book was a Christmas gift given to our staff a few years back. Yep, just now getting to it. Have you seen my TBR list?!

Of course, it doesn’t help that I’m not the fastest reader, either. Not a good thing for someone who spends so much time writing and having to re-read and edit their work. But… oops, I did it again:

I labeled s...

I’m Singing in the…Car

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Photo by William Christen on Unsplash

Some people were born blessed with amazing singing voices, some can’t carry a tune in a bucket. Me, I’m somewhere in between. That leads to a lot of singing when no one’s around—so I don’t have to watch them cringe—or singing at church because I know there the crowd will drown me out. (Besides, after listening to a number of tone-deaf people there over the years, I’ve decided God must enjoy the discord.)

So, yeah, if you pull up next to me at a red light,...

Romance Where You Least Expect It

I don’t know about you, but we’re a movie family. When life is spinning a million miles an hour, nothing helps settle us better than the big screen. Or, if we’re home, the much-smaller-than-big-screen living room television. Grab a few blankets, do up the popcorn, and we’re good to go.

This weekend, to break up the monotony of my oldest studying for this week’s finals at school, we were chipping away at the Rocky movies. Admittedly, this all started when my youngest selected trumpet as his ba...

Grief, Joy, and Perspective

I’ve now attended two funerals this spring, as two dear friends have each lost a parent. It’s heart-wrenching to see them go through the pain of loss, and to know the struggles their loved ones faced as they neared the end. If you’re like me, you wish you could do something, wish you could help take the burden from them, but you can’t. All you can do is be there for them.

And that’s no easy task, either.

As I took a seat in the first funeral, I found myself thinking back to when my father-in-...